Food Safety
Safety for Small Plants
This USDA-FSIS website portal helps smaller meat plants produce flexible, more efficient and HACCP compliant food safety protocol.
Food Safety
How to Become a USDA Federally Inspected Facility
In this interview with Dr. Lynn Delmore, a Meat Scientist and Food Safety Consultant, you’ll get first-hand advice about obtaining and maintaining a USDA certification.
Food Safety
Validating Your HACCP Plan
This website brings together some of the scientific support you might need to validate your HACCP practices.
Food Safety
Microbiological Testing
Reducing pathogens requires a farm-to-table approach in which everyone has a role. HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point) is the cornerstone of this approach.
Food Safety
Testing pH and Water Activity
pH and water activity levels that are too high or too low affect meat quality and safety. This quick guide helps you test for both.
Food Safety
The Role of Microbial Testing in Raw Beef
Understand types of microbiological testing for raw beef, what to test and when, and how to utilize testing data for continuous improvement.
Customer Resources
How Smart is Beef?
Help your customers understand the facts about beef’s unusual upcycling superpower and its indispensable value as a nutrient-rich source of protein.
Food Safety
Food Safety Best Practices for Ground Meat
The Beef Industry Food Safety Council members share knowledge and best practices for sourcing safe raw materials all the way to shipping finished ground meat products.
Business
Meat Pricing & Profitability
Setting a profitable price for your direct-to-consumer meat sales requires careful record keeping and analysis, starting with your cost of production.
Business
Want to Start a Small Meat Processing Plant?
Think through and write your own business plan to determine if building a meat processing facility would be viable and sustainable in your market.
Business
Beef or Hogs?
Should you process and sell beef, hogs, deer, or all of the above? Download this pdf for some good advice about estimating profitability per species.
Business
Evaluating a Freezer Beef Price
Calculate your freezer beef P&L compared to selling on a live basis, expected amount of beef and estimate prices for freezer beef when selling whole animals, halves and quarters of beef.